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- Title
Keefe on Human Nature and Immortality: The Importance of Reason and Faith.
- Authors
BROWN, MONTAGUE
- Abstract
This paper focuses on the tradition of thought that affirms the immortality of the soul, a doctrine argued for by numerous philosophers and one confirmed by the Catholic Church. Donald Keefe, S.J., has written extensively on the subject, and it is the central topic for his essay "Baˉs'aˉr-Nepes': Sarx-Pneuma; Body-Soul: Death-Resurrection: An Essay in Pauline Anthropology." Keefe argues that the traditional philosophical understanding of the soul and its immortality is inadequate theologically, but also philosophically. This essay will focus primarily on the philosophical inadequacies. The essay will have three parts. The first lays out the basic arguments for the immortality of the soul by Plato and Aristotle and developed by Augustine and Thomas Aquinas, taking stock of the real and positive contributions of this tradition. The second points out some problems with this philosophical tradition: most crucially, it fails to account adequately for the freedom and unity of the human person. The third part presents, briefly, Keefe's theological arguments (grounded in Scripture and doctrine) for a more adequate, though mysterious, understanding of human immortality.
- Subjects
JESUITS; HUMAN behavior; IMMORTALITY of the soul; FAITH; PHILOSOPHERS; CATHOLIC clergy
- Publication
Saint Anselm Journal, 2020, Vol 15, Issue 2, p39
- ISSN
2689-6230
- Publication type
Article